<html><body style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Hi Will!<br><br>So nice to hear from you, thanks a lot for taking time to listen and comment, we really appreciate it.<br><br>Take Care, Glen<br><blockquote>----- Original Message -----<br><div id="origionalMessageFromField" style="width:100%;background:rgb(228,228,228);"><div style="font-weight:bold;">From:</div> "Will Godfrey" <willgodfrey@musically.me.uk></div><br><div id="origionalMessageToField" style="font-weight:bold;">To:</div><linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org><br><div id="origionalMessageSentField" style="font-weight:bold;">Cc:</div><br><div style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</div>Fri, 16 Dec 2016 16:09:41 +0000<br><div id="origionalMessageSubjectField" style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</div>Re: [LAU] Music Made with Linux: Rated Blue-Turnabout Album<br><br><br>
On Wed, 14 Dec 2016 15:28:03 -0800<br>
info@bandshed.net wrote:<br><br>
> Hi fellow LAU's!<br>
> <br>
> This is a kind of a small pre-release announcement of our new Album<br>
> "Turnabout", in the next week it will be available in retail outlets<br>
> and announced elsewhere but it's already on Soundcloud so I thought<br>
> I'd post it here on LAU...<br>
> This was recorded and produced on Ardour 5 and utilizes a variety of<br>
> FLOSS and Commercial plugins including Ardour Team, Harrison Consoles,<br>
> linuxDSP/OverToneDSP, Guitarix, Calf, U-he + SWH, CAPS, TAP, Furse<br>
> Ladspa's. We also did a lot of work with mic placements and ambient<br>
> stairwell miking as well as simple line-delays for natural reverbs.<br>
> <br>
> *ALBUM NOTES*<br>
> <br>
> "Turnabout" is our second Rated Blue album release following 2015's<br>
> "Three Walls Down". Where "Three Walls Down" was initially a<br>
> collection of songs for posterity "Turnabout" is a more cohesive<br>
> collection influenced and written against the backdrop of the 2016 US<br>
> Presidential Election (no we're not American but when the neighbor's<br>
> house is on fire you pay attention!!). Our core musical inspiration<br>
> remains the gut-level immediacy of the Blues within the collaborative<br>
> interactivity of a guitar trio but stylistically and sonically<br>
> Turnabout roams much farther afield than it's predecessor and is<br>
> probably best summed up as 'Alt-Blues'.<br>
> <br>
> Turnabout opens with "Straight Up" a funky inspired plea for the<br>
> media to cut to the chase. "The Second Sister" touches on gender and<br>
> sexual equality. "When You Got a Name" leans heavily toward Prog and<br>
> examines lives left behind by the cult of celebrity . The latin<br>
> influenced title track "Turnabout" traces the insidious rise of<br>
> Reality TV and it's troubling consequences. "Unsteady" surf-rocks out<br>
> and rips on the unreliable nature of mavericks and "You" questions a<br>
> seeming lack of world leadership. "Man On a Wire" closes the album<br>
> with a collection of vignettes ending on an unresolved chord.<br>
> <br>
> If you are a Blues or Rock fan becoming weary of well-worn Blues<br>
> cliches and tiring of flashy virtuosity we invite you to give this new<br>
> release a listen and hope you'll find our 'songs-first' mentality an<br>
> appealing alternative within the Blues/Roots genre. Thanks for reading<br>
> (and listening). <br>
> <br>
> Glen, Connor and Pete - Rated Blue<br>
> <br>
> *ALBUM Link: https://soundcloud.com/rated-blue/sets/turnabout<br><br>
Really enjoyed these tracks. I didn't notice any 'issues' at all, but then I<br>
was just listening to the music rather than examining it :)<br><br>
-- <br>
Will J Godfrey<br>
http://www.musically.me.uk<br>
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.<br>
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.<br>
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